# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-forschner
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:58:43.906Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/otto-forschner"
name: "Otto Förschner"
slug: "otto-forschner"
description: "Otto Förschner was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and a Nazi concentration camp commander. After serving with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front, Förschner worked as a senior official at the Buchenwald concentration camp (1942–1943) and later served as the commandant of Mittelbau-Dora (1943–1945) and Kaufering (1945). Following the German defeat, he was convicted of war crimes by US occupation authorities at the Dachau trials and was hanged in May 1946."
tagline: "German SS officer and concentration camp commander, convicted war criminal (1902-1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Otto_F%C3%B6rschner.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1902-11-04"
deathDate: "1946-05-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.61271333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Отто Фершнер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "أوتو فورشنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اوتو فورشنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_F%C3%B6rschner"
    title: "Otto Förschner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_F%C3%B6rschner"
    title: "Otto Förschner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_F%C3%B6rschner"
    title: "Otto Förschner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_F%C3%B6rschner"
    title: "Otto Förschner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%98%D7%95_%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%A8"
    title: "אוטו פרשנר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_F%C3%B6rschner"
    title: "Otto Förschner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC"
    title: "オットー・フォーシュナー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_F%C3%B6rschner"
    title: "Otto Förschner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%91%D1%80%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9E%D1%82%D1%82%D0%BE"
    title: "Фёршнер, Отто"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_F%C3%B6rschner"
    title: "Otto Förschner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96861"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump